The Sun. — London, England, 1826-10-17 00:00:00

' SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC 3017 1 NAL S. A Meeting oCtand per ins was held at Huntingdon on Saturday 'last, to petition Parliament against letting the people have bread from any other corn but that of their o,nss growing, and at their own price. This as semialage called a " spiiit from the vasty deep." The B.egistrar of the Bedford Level made his appearance t le conjured, but could net lay the storm. Thus a preparative for an attack on the new Parliameut has been made. The resolutions,_ though brief, are of un usual absurdity. The first, for example, showeth that " the petitioners have invested large sumas of money in the purchase and occupation of land." How did they get these large sums of money to: invest ? From, - the . land clearly, for that has been their line. Laudholth. ing, then, and landlording, must ,have been pretty hi crative concerns, notwithstanding the clamours of persons engaged in them. We can recollect, indeed, when farming was so profitable,. that landlords of all descriptions, dolta that had hardly sense to ride after a pack of dogs, and not..sufficieet to get a degree gat the Universities, suddenly commenced farming, and wrote books aboutfarming, and took a great quantity of land, into their - own hands. Then commenced the ruin ul the true, old, homely, frugal British tinsuers. Few such exist now. An extravagant system of agriculture was introduced ; and men out of this very, class, who now petition Parliament, were found capable of swearing before Parliamentary committees that the farmer could not live out of his tlinnwith wheat at 605., though be were to pay no rent and no tithes ; rates, taxes,' and labour, they averred, consuming the whole. Then was the time also, when the British labourer began to be de graded into a pauper, being sent to the pariah for half his wage's But we have to notice—and this is not the last time that we shall mention the subject—that a curious debate sprung up at this meeting resperting tithes, whether they should be publicly shown up in the petition as a grievance ; and after some shuffling, they were omitted. But this, Gentlemen Agricultu rists, we know is what you are aiming at. You would deprive the poor of bread, and' the whole country of religious instruction. We are surprised to see the Clergy lend themselves to such meetings ; without whom, probably, there would not, in most cases, be sense enough among the Country Gentlemen to draw up a resolution. However, destroy tithes if you will, or if you dare. But begin with those tithes that arc most unjustly paid to laymen for no one duty what,. ever. The labourer is worthy of his hire. But what are these drones? They do nothing but commit plunder. Let the Legislature then dissolve lay-imprO priatiows, reserving only an adequate stipend for the officiating clergyman. We hope that no petition will be presented to Parliament against foreign corn, with out a strict inquiry being immediately instituted, whether that petition has been signed, or the meeting from which it it emanated been attended, by any lay impropriator of great or small tithes. We hope also, as an attempt is now made, or about to be made, to destroy our commerce and manufactures, that the tables of Parliament will be loaded with petitions against lay-impropriations. They are the curse of the Church and of the nations-Times. Though we should be sorry to see any thing doue which should have even the appearance of legalising or in any degree sanctioning the depraved spirit of gambling which has of late years aeysired so formi der& an ascendancy among us, we should not be sorry if some steps were taken by Parliament to make it, wherever it exists, in some way or other contributory to the coffer's of the State. 'Had, for instance, the shares, the dealings, and the transfers, in the late bubble speculations, been all subject to a stamp duty, a considerable revenue would have been derived from them ; and we can perceive no valid reason that if the person who borrows 1001. of another upon bond, or who sells his shares in a fire-office, is subject in such case to a heavy tax, why the Bonds of the Spanish Cortes, or of the Colombian or Mexican Govern. ments--or why Isaac Dickson's bits of paper, or the many other pretty pictures with which the gullibility of John Bull has been first tickled and then hooked, should not have been subject to similar itnposts; or why steps should not now be taken to catch such of them as may be mill afloat. It is the practice of our French neighbours to render this vice (though they hardly think it one) coutributory to the State ; but among us, the only direct mode in whist) gaming is brought in aid of the public finan ces, is in a trifling tax upon cards and dice, which, though carried perhaps as far as it will go in that shape, produces very little, and bears no sort 01 proportion to the magnitude of the stakes which' they are m a d e t o decide. Whether a method 'nigh not be devised to tax not only gaming tables of al descriptions, hut the players at them, is what we are slot at earm prepared to say ; but at any rate the principle, according to some of our present heads of taxation, seems unexceptionable; for if the man whc pursues the manly sports of the field, or who has his crest engrave') upon his seal or spoons, or if the man who sells those spoons, cannot do one or the other without paying a tax to the State, there seems to be no reason why the billiard and the card player, the pro fessor of rouge et noir, of hazard, and blind hookey, "should not be also compelled to take out a licence, and that a pretty thurnping one, for the pursuit of that which is, in most cases, in him, not merely an amusement but a trade. But it is the great gaming shop in Bartholomew-lane which, above all others, we should like to are made contributory to the State.— cre we have the public debt and finances themselves made the source of constant speculation mid fraud ; here stints are daily and hourly lost and won to an ex tent which would well admit of aotne part of the plun der, at least, finding its way into the public treasury ; but it will be said that nine-tenths of these trams actions are illegal, and that to tax them would be to recognise them. Here we are aware lies the difficulty ; but though great, it may not turn out to be insuperable. At an early period of the late war, we remember, it was proposed that a tax, in the nature of a stamp duty, should be laid upon every transfer of stock. This was at the time objected to, on the ground of its being a direct tax upon the Funds. At a subsequent period, however, came the Property Tax, which soon set that objection at rest, and with a vengeance. But a stronger objection, we think, at present, would be, that a tax on transfers 'would only reach hone fide transactions, while the gambling ones, which we most wish to reach, would !Neaps. An ad eglorent duty upon the brokers note, perhaps, would remedy this. A Plan to effect this object mat, we know, be ingenious, and so contrived, as, if pOssible, to defeat the crafty evasions with which • it would be met ; for, of course, those who live cheating and plundering one another, are not very nice in practising ghtuilar measures towards the State. We are not, however, without a confident impresaion that a Tiab of the kiint might be Wit upon,•by means; of whop the vices of the worst part of the community might he made to lessen the public burdens upon the more reputable irni dest tokkg dart of sowly4 the etratavour would, at least, be laudable, and worth th e trial. To increase taxation is not our object ; but to check, and in some Measure harass, disgraceful pur suits, and to open a door for the remission of some of the most onerous of the public burdens, by the substi on , , tutianother, against which no one would'ven of titre to complain.—Morning Herald. We have been favoured with an early copy of The Edinburgh ReviEtv, No. 88, which contains a laboured and masterly article on the Corn 'Laws--a subject of paramount interest at the present moment. Before adverting to the arguments of the Reviewer, h favour of a freedom of trade in Corn, we shall notice the con cluding portion of his article, which relates to the taxes or burdens which. affect the cultivation of the soil. As great stress is laid on the heavy taxation of this country by the advocates of the:Restrictive System, it is of infinite consequence that correct ideas should be entetained on this point.- With respect to , general taxation, it has always been allowed, by economists, that it afforded no ground for peculiar protection to the .Agriculturists ; but the 'Reviewer has shewn that thu claim of the latter to protection has hitherto been allowed "for particular burdens which really do not affect thtm. tit With respect," flays The Reviewer, " to those taxes or burdens which affect the cultivators of the soil, or the prodbcf,:rs of 'eerie they may be exceedingly heavy without entitling theta to a prohibition from foreign competition. It must be remembered that all imported corn must be paid for, either !Tweedy or indirectly, by the exportation of some epeties of manufactured Odds: And it is clear, on the first blush of the matter, that the home producers of corn have not the semblance of a claim to a protecting duty on the importation of foreign corn, unless they can show, that the taxes or public charges, affecting raw pro duce, exceed those which fall on manufactured goods.— We are no apologists for heavy taxation ; hut however oppressive it may be—though it were to abstract a fourth or a third part of the income of every individual—still, if it affected them all equally, it would leave the relative velure of the commodities produced by them exactly where it•found their t arid if it did this, it is clear to demonstra tion that it could not render any particular class less able than the other's to withstand the unfettered competition of foreigners, and could not, therefore, entitle them to a pro tecting duty," The general taxation being disposed of, the Reviewer proceeds to the consideration of the taxes peculiarly affecting land t and here it appears to us that he has arrived at a most important conclusion with respect to one burden which has generally been supposed to fall on ' agrieulture. Having estimated the taxes on the pressure of which the agriculturists found their claim to a protecting duty, as tithe, land tax, poor rates, and other county rates, at about thirteen millions in all, he then observes, that on examination it will be found that by far the largest proportion of this sum has invariably been paid out of rent, and that it has really no more to do with the cost of producing corn, than the taxes laid on tobacco or nutmegs. With respect to tithes, it has been argued, that if the ports were now to be opened for the importation of foreign corn free of duty, the cultivators, unable, by limiting the supply, to raise prices, would relinquish the tillage of bad land, whiCh would have the effect to reduce the rent of the Land lords, and to throw a burden wholly on them that has hitherto been borne by all classes. " Although (says the Reviewer) the principle advanced by Mr. 'Leavitt holds under the circumstances he has sup posed; it is essential to observe, that these era not the cir cumstances under which the Agriculturists of Great Bri tain are or ever have been placed.—So far, indeed, is it from being true that all or nearly all our lands are affected by the burden of tithes, that it. appears that about . a third part of the land of England and Wales is exempted from it, exclusive Of considerable tracts in Ireland, and of the whole of Scotland ! And such being the ease, it is quite idle to suppose that the cultivators of the tithed lands have had any power an to narrow the supply of Corn brought to market as to throw any considerable portion of the bur den of tidies on the consumers. DWI the extent of tithe free land been i n considerable, they might have thrown the greeter part of it upon them ; but when they have had to conic into competition not with a few, but with a third of the cultivators of England, and all those of Scotland, it is obvious that the price of corn must have been ref ulatedby the price for which it can be raised on the last lands culti vated that are free from tithe, and not for what it could be raised for on the last lands cultivated that are sub ject to that charge. It appears, therefore, that if the whole land of the Empire. had been subject to tithes, the proposition advanced by Mr. Ricardo, that tithes do not fall on rent, would, under the existing , restraints on importa tion, have been strictly true. Inasmuch, however, as this is not our situation- , -as a very large proportion of our land are not subject to tithes, and the cultivators of the tithed lands arc, iii Consequence, without the means of limiting the supply and raising prices—the proposition ad vanced by Dr. Smith, that tithes constitute fi portion of the rent of the lend, and that their' payment has no effect on the price of corn, is most certainly correct. Neither, it is to be observed, is this a burden recently imposed upon landlords. Tidies have existed for a thousand years ; and having been constantly paid out of rent, it is clear to de monstration, on the principle previously laid down, that this landlords,cannot urge the existence of this burden as a reason why it corresponding duty should be laid on foreign corn imported. Tithes forma portion of the rental of the country appropriated by the State, to whom they really belong,,to the support of the Church. And though they may be, and we believe with Dr. Paley, really die, a most noxious institution, they arc in no respect more injurious to the landlords than to any other class of the community." From our great respect for the Church, to which its temporalities must always be the principal considera tion, we rejoice to find it so satisfactorily demonstrated that tithes are only a diminution of the tent which would otherwise be paid to the 'landlords, and not a tax on the community at large: This proposition of the Edinburgh Review ought to endear Scotchmett for chveelrintilth,elteishiNmvrocithli,Eisntatthilliisshinniocinitesv.owforEBl:rplia)iii,tilg acid tion, all the pastoral charges which ed by all the Bishops of England tl d tese min re years. have been publish . 1 have all time benefit of it as the consideration that t.tey Nothing will so touch endear the Church to all classes 1 2 1 e re r l t i b u e rd o e l n li s y , and shows that of all of them po . for nothing. The Reviewer analyoserseS duty petty ; but that t he _ which the agricu t r i a ie te o s t tea are one which presses heavier on land than nn other pra y be very wall in liarly affected by poor 's rates, I entitled to claim on the ground of their being ,all the side of too bream. However, wishing to err o indeed, perhaps not more than one per opt. ad va ten or twelve per cent. object to its being as high as much protection rather than of too little, be would not orted into price at which Foreign Wheat •might be " We have already seen ;S i" to ri•rrs, a Eegland, in ordinary years, would - be from Pi. in order (he says), that the a verage quarter; and we would therefore beg to to get rid of the trickery and fraud insepant ble from the s uggest, average system, that the ad valorem duty of • or as. a cent. s hould be converted into a fixed duty of be. er q uarter on Wheat;, other grain in proportiOnll (is. 10 or 12 per being at the same time granted to the Privy Connell suspend the duty whenever prices in the London arket exceed Os. or 'Ns. SO- high a duty would 'undoubtedly be much, too favourable to the Landlords. Bet the vest advantages that would result - from the freedom -of the Corn Trade, and the total abolition of all restrictions ant fetters Mt itilplirliititlri ought to idutie the public to waive, all objections to its imposition. - From the length of our notice of the pa rt of the. Re venue relating to the extent of protection to which the Agriculturists are entitled, we have left ourselves little space for the preceding part, in which he enters into a 'variety of statements respecting the consump, tion of the people of England—the quantity of Corn which we can import from other countries—and the extent of the loss we sustain, from the monopoly. The practical and real operation of the monstrous sys tem of the emit Laws, the Reviewer contehds, is, that " Alternately ,prodtictive of famine and excess, it is equally ruinous to the a gricultural, manufactnring, and commercial c4o4Sei; ; and, if riot put down, it will Most probably eiid by destroying the eapital of the country,, and by sinking all classes, high as well as low, below the level of what was originally lowest." In order to ascertain the extent of the loss sustained by the nation from the monopoly, estimating our con-, sumption at 48 millions of quarters, and supposing that with a duty of ss. or 65., the average price of wheat would not exceed b3s., he says— " It is an iticontrovertible proposition, that every addl.! tional shilling added to the price of the 48 millions of quarters, by means of the prohibition against importation, is really equivalent in its effects on the consumer to a tax of 2,400,0004 laid directly on corn. And estimating the difference between the average price of all sorts of grain for the last eight or ten years, and its average price, were the ports thrown open, at Ss. a quarter, this would make a total aggregate loss to the consumer of not less than nineteen millions seven hundred thousand pounds sterling a year. ; ' But of every five hundred thousand pounds so drawn from the pockets of the consumers, scarcely one hundred thousand finds its way into the pockets of the Landlords. The rest is pure loss. He takes the rent at one fourth of the produce, and it is only, therefore, one fourth part of the additional price caused by restrictions that falls to the share of the Landlord. But it is not the fourth part of the produce which is alone raised—the other three fourths which are partly cast into the soil as seed, and partly consumed by the men, horses, anti oxen employed by the farmer, are also raised. This rise is in absolute and total loss. " Instead then of its being true, as has sometimes been alleged, that the Corn Laws assist in enabling the country to make good the taxes necessary to pay the interest of the National Debt and tke expenses of the Peace Este blislunent, it is obvious that they form of themselves by far the greatest of all the burdens we have to sustain. The Corn Laws do not, like an ordinary tax, transfer wealth from one portion of the public to another; but on the most moderate estimate, they occasion a positive destruction -:-a dead annual loss to the public of not less than Fourteen or ifteen Millions."—Morning Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—The business of Billingsgate-market ii likely to be regulated in such a manner as to render much service W the public of the metropolis. Mr. GoWham, one of the Cor. poration, has been appointed clerk of the market. This gentle.. man has been for some years master of the ceremonies at the Man. sion-house and whether or not it was there he became so admi rable a proficient, he certainly has proved himself adequate to the extraordinary task of abating some of the most offensive ceremonies of Billingsgate. It has been so long a practice that it is now looked upon as a privilege for what are called mud-larks and lag. gers to he employed about the boats which ply to the market: A mud-lark is a person of either sex who gets into the mud close to the fishing-bouts, and Nvith a pole with a hook at the end of it, pretends to grope for dead fish, but occasionally, when a fisher man's eyes are turned away, contrives to hook away a live one, which is dropped into the water by the bigger, whose business it is to help the shover or person who lands the fish. These two do seriptions of ',croons are mordantly committing robberies upon this poor fishermen, and, as they are employed to the prejudice of limiest men, and only contribute to injure the morality of Bil lingsgate-market, the clerk determined to clear them away alto ' gether. He accordingly watched one of the inters himself, and caught him in the act of appropriating a large cod which a mud lark had picked up. Mr. Goldham said that the plunder committed by fellows of this kind was very ,considerable, and that if the Lord Mayor would inflict punishment in this the first instance of complaint , the e v i l would be remedied, as the moment it was known at Gravesend that the Chief Magistrate had set his face against the. mud-larks and the loggers, there would be no more employment for such gentry. The Loan MAYOR convicted the logger (who said in hisdefence that be really took the live for a dead fish) to imprisonment for two months, under the bum-boat act. Mr. Goldhsm next preferred a charge against a salesman of Billingsgate-market, who, ke admitted, was a very respectable person in the trade, for having sold soles which were unfit for use. The clerk of the market stated, that amongst the tricks play ed amongst fish-dealers Wall that of staging bad fish with good— that is, placing fresh fish at the top of the barrel, and stale at the bottom. By this mai - oeuvre the public often get hold 01 very abominable dishes, which are calculated to do great injury to the c onstitution. Several fish-dealers here cried out that it was only in the case of bad salmon that people's constitutions are likely to be injured. Indifferent fish of another kind had no such effect.— (A laugh.) The Loan MAYOR Said, that any body who would think for a moment, must he convinced of the deleterious effect of eating bad fish, whatever might be the recommendation giVen by those who *AI it. His Lordship highly approved of the activity of Mr. Gi;ldham, in detecting this horrible species of imposition, and maid that he sho s uld inflict a penalty in every Coe of this kind without exception. The salesman said, that when be sold the fish to the person 01 whose stall it was found, there could he no objection made to it. It was the fault of the buyer if the fish appeared to be bad. It was well known that a buyer could abuse, and was in the habit o abusing fish for certain reasons. The buyer declared that he had laid out the fish on his stal just as he' had received it, and that he had sold some of it a A Price considerably underthat which he had paid to the salesman. The Loan MAYAK asked Mr. Goldham whether the fish was really objectionable. Mr. Ooldhatu replied, that it was nothing more nor less than stinking. The Loan Marcia immediately fined the defendant. Yesterday a person named Menet, residing at Tottenham, ap plied to the Lord Mayor, and with tears in his eyes, begged his lan dship'e assistance, or if that could not he given, his advice, as against the directors of the Cornwall and De vonshire Minin g Company. The applicant, who app eare d. to -. be a mechanic , of the more re spectable class, stated that h e h a d fur SO years worked hard , an d that, during that time, having been foreman in a ver y res p ectable he house,had saved a little money„ w hi c h he endeavoured to put out -, o the best " advantage, having A 1444 family. He had a pro spectus of the Cornwall and Devonshire Miming Company put into of the statements set forth respecting his hands, and seeing . the names of Lord Palmerston and Mr. I cannot Peter Moore at the head of it, could not help believing the truth a concern in which men who occupied such hi The names of the noblemen and gentlemen The Lou, mA ill y t: R tttioz ea in uy pu ti l i l s ic you mention might be, i l s ife a were eas c i o n nt:e vi r i n ic eA h . interfere. It is like all the other cases of Joint Stock Companies. and probebly were, used without their consent. • The complainant wired his Lordship that such was not the cue. He had gone to th e o ffice, where he saw and spoke to Mr. Peter Monre t who assured him that the concern was an honest one, in which money migh t h e invested to advantage. Upon his representation he took 100 shares. Ile had never attempted, and had never intended, to p art w ith them ; hut, as we underattiod him, he had paid hint 3L up o n e ach share. He had since seen what sad work was go i ng on there—how much was given. to Wilks, and how much had been taken by the directors; and die was dreadfully alarmed for his hard earnings. But what Was wor se, he had received the following letter from Lord Palmer ston's solicitors, Melina. Shore. and Ashton : "'Davies- street Grorvenor- tanners, Oct. 13, 1826. ccSir,—Wo are desi re d by the Board of Directors of the Corn' wall and Devonshire Mitting Company, held this day, to sPVIi4 ic you for the payment of the stun of bl. per share on your share it that company, made on the 14th September ; anal we beg to fl' form you ) that unless the amount is immediately paid, we We instructions to adopt le ga l m easures , to enforce the payment"' step "kb it . would be entially unpleasant to us se to yOUVOY to .., , . • be obliged to adopt. We hope, he:fever, that your attention to this will render any farther proceedings unnecessary." (Signed, &c.) The Loan Mairois asked him what these solicitors had to do with Lord Palmerston ? The complainant said, he understood they had been introduced by him. The Loan Maroa....—What you have been saying may be, and probably is, mere matter of hearsay. The complainant declared, that one Director had admitted to him that he had 8001. or 9001. out of the thing ; and that a second had admitted the receipt of a similar sum. Having em barked 3001. in the thing, upon the representations of those men, he could not hazard any of his rema►ning prokrty with them. He had a large family, and he could nut even afford to lose that which he had advanced ; he was in a state of distraction re- specting The Loan Maroa expressed his sorrow at the condition of the poor man, but could give him no relief. He had bound himself to pay a large sum of money before he had made adequate in quiries respecting the nature of the plan. It was to be feared that the suffering of this description was dreadfully extensive. His Lordship recommended the applicant to go to the solicitors, who were probably persons of respectabliity, and represent to them his condition. The Complainant—Oh, my Lord, I don't like to go before peo ple of that sort. The Loan Mavoa—Why, truly it is not in every instance safe; but in this it is all I eun recommend, unless it be to consult your own solicitor. The complainant said he had none, and declared that he had lived all hie life without having occasion for one until now. The Loan MAYOR regretted that lie could do nothing to aid the complainant. There was not the slightest ground fur his in terference. The complaint was then dismissed. Four journeymen tailors were brought up on a charge of being guilty of intoxication, and having created a riot soon after the pay ment of their wages. The Loan MAeoa, in fining them each be., said, he knew not how it was, but the journeymen tailors appeared to be the most drunken and dissipated of all mechanics. More tailors were brought before him for drunken outrages, breaches of the peace, and other misdemeanors, than any other class of journeymen. The next prisoner put to the bar was 11. Butt. The Loan Mayon—Well, what is that man ? Officer—lt's another tailor, my Lord. Mr. J. Smith, one of *the churchwardens of St. Stephen's church, stated, that the prisoner was found drunk in the streets during divine service on Sunday. He was so noisy and riotous in his cmnduct that it was found requisite to imprison him. The Loan MATO% animadverted on his conduct, and fined him ss. It were to be wished that this class of journeymen, whose employments are Sedentary, would, instead of running to the public-house immediately they get their money, and getting drunk, avail themselves of the advantages offered by the cheap and excel. lent institutions formed for the use of mechanics generally, lint which lied weaned but a small number from the gin-shop. He recommended them to try to canyon*: to find some innocent bodily or mental recreation, which would supersede the nee of the expensive and pernicious stimulants they now resorted to. GUILDHALL.—DanieI Braggart, a very cadaverous and seedy covered so with t o h f a p n er i a n t e nse with cr opal o f coa u ncovered bla throat anti ci a ra cranium ; hair whereof did "stand on end, like quills upon the fretful por cupine," was charged with having been very drunk at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning in Smithfield.—" We found him without his coat, your Worship, calling out for somebody to come and fight with him," said the constable who, had him in charge ; and it was as much as three of us could do to get him to the Compter. • Sir JOHN PERAING, upon hearing this, very naturally asked Mr. Daniel Haggart if he was an Irishman? " No, lam a Seotehman," replied he. At which the Worthy Alderman, and every body else, was not a little surprised ; and their surprise was not diminished when the constable said he thought Mr. Haggart was " a sort of a Methodist preacher." In support of that opinion he handed in a paper which he had taken from Ilaggsirt's waistcoat-p►N:ket ; of which paper the following is a true copy :--- Sheffield, 29th May, 1926. Thin is to certify that the bearer, Daniel Haggart, is a Member of the Society of • Primitive Methodists. He has been with me for the space of six weeks; has a steady character; and he has 'efficient cause for removal. (Signed) JONATHAN WOODWARD, Leader. Sir JouN Paaetru, having read this certificate, h iked Mr. • Haggart whether he had been a preacher among the primitive Methodists hithself. " I - haie" replied Mr. Haggart, with much hesitation ; and in answer to other questions he said, that he had been in London sax week or therebye, and was by trade a shoemaker. " I am really surprised at your conduct," said 'Sir JOHN, " for I have. always understood the Primitive Methodists to be a very orderly body of people; and in this certificate you are described, not only as a Primitive Methodist, but as a steady character. Was there any thing very primitive or steady in getting intoxicat ed on a Sunday morning, do you think?" Mr. Haggart muttered something in reply; which something, as interpreted by the constable who Fitoal by his side, signified that he "didna ken preceesely how it was ; but he met wi' some auld acquaintances wha tempted him to tak a tip, or may be twa cups, ower muckle ; and couldna answer for the consequences." So the steady character was fined five shillings for having been • drank ; and as he had not so. much by eighteen-pence, he was locked up. John Gray, a sturdy, surly-visaged, curly-headed man, in a good suit of black, was charged with a very outrageous assault upon one Mr. Anthony Cooper, and a constable. ' Mr. Anthony Cooper appeared with his' head bound up in a bloody handkerchief, and deposed to the following facts :—John Gray lodged on his second floor, in Ashen-tree-court, Bouverie street, and on Sunday night he cantle home with the wife of the lodger on the first floor. There was nothing very extra ordinary in that; but they remained so long in the dark on the landing-place, that Mr. Cooper began to entertain au idea that there was something very like criminal conversation going on between them, and therefore he took a candle and went up stairs, with the intention of throwing a little light Upon the subject. Be fore be could reach them, however, John Grarleft the lady, and went up to his own room on the second floor, and the lady went into her own room on the first floor. Presently after, she and her husband were at high Work - at which Mr. Cooper was by no means surprised, under the circumstances, but Ceding much scandalised at having such a disturbance in his house, and well knowing that John Gray had been the cause of it, he went up to his room, and told him to provide himself with other lodgings, for he should not remain there beyond the ensuing week. Whereupon John Gray rushed upon him, knocked him down, grasped him by the throat, and began battering his heartwith the candlestick—at the same time swearing he would batter the life out of him, for interfering in that which did not concern him. Mr. Cooper cried "Murder ;" and his cries bringing another lodger, frog► above, to his assist ance, Jahn Gray was s►cured and handed over to the constable, who was also very grossly assaulted by him as he was taking him to prison. In hi* defence he said he was in bed when Mr. Cooper came up stairs, and not knowing who it was, he jumped out of bed and defended himself as well as he could ! Ile was ordered to give notice of bail to answer both the assaults at the sessions. THAMES POLICE.--A s i ngu l ar i ns t a nce of the amantimn iris amoris intepratio eat was produced at this office, in the *- son of Henry Carstang and Maria Carstany, a decent-looking the first floor. She always esteemed them ee ere om , plaint, until which was h couple, who were charged by Matilda Ellio tt with having totally *mil destroyed a quantity of her crockery. - ' The complainant stated that she kept a sort of lodging-house, in which the persons complained against owl) the fracas, y t erY e took place. On Thursday las t she was going through her • daily occupation of acrnhhing an d devising, when her eats were as sailed. with a tremenshitta crash, and finding it proceeded from the ground-work and w very of peacea b le h u er es i b present lnodtgst apartment of her lodgers, She hastened up to ascertain the cause, when, judge her morti fi cation, on beholding her beat claw-legged turry, and het crockery, in broken con turn-tip table lying topsy fusinn, strewed all Over the room. The husband was seated on one ride o f the fire-Place, and the wife on the other, with her handkerchief to her face, apparently in tears. In vain she asked the cause of this shameful deMolition; both remained silent, and she therefore sent for a c onstable, and had them taken into ens tOdy, to see if they would open their mouths before his Nava Worship: The Macorrsars, to the husband— :Well sir, what l lyou to s ay to this? Carstang-Why, your Worship, me and my wifts had a small quarrel —All about nothing. The fact hi yourworship, having met having met some friends, from the country, - whom I had not seen for a long time, I went and drank sonic ale with them, and got a little „ ma y ;I' never was - so before your Worah . ip, since I have been n i a t r i e d; When I went home, my wife here, blowed me up, but in a very mild manner, seeing at; how, I oupimsei it was no use arguing with a drunken man. Next morning. however, she began again, and upbraided ins in a ticklish manner, about naughty women, and as I wile 'so unused to language like this from to, I Merl► into t pusiou, and irietetf over the table and broke the Cita and saucers, and that's all about K. Yes, your Worship, exclaimed Maria, that's the whole of the business, and as to what f said to my dear Henry about noughly women, which I only did to vex him, I don't believe a word of it, for I dont think there is a more properer, betterer, or de-. eenterer sort of man than my Harry is ; and I hope your Wotebip , will let me pay her for her paltry crockery, and let me and se y - Harry go to some other lodgings and be comfortable. The worthy Magistrate expressed himself quite agreeable to . this mode of settlement, and reprimanded the complainant for her un necessary haste, as it was evident the persons complained against would have willingly compensated her for her loss without being dragged before him ; he should therefore make her pay all the expences. The parties then left the Office to settle the amount of damages —Henry and Maria walking most lovingly arm-in-arm, as all married couples should walk. MEETING S OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY, THURSDAY, Ocr. (At the Court of Commissioners.) T. Gilson, Nottingham—at the George IV., Nottingham,fd. I Haynes and Co. Swansea —Public Rooms, 5wan5ea......... J. Jackson, Macclesfield—Maccl esfield A rms ......... , ........ 5 J. NUttall, Wirkewoith—Kinges Arms, Derby .....••.•••.... 11 ......... II P. Riding, Derby—New Inn , De nb y ........................... J. Wells, jun. Reading—Ship , Readin g ...................... I I Wetherspoon and Walford , Liverpool—George, Liverpool.— LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Breadin the Metropolis is 90.. for the 111, Loaf-There are others who s2ll from a halfpenny " " c° "" pence lialfpesmy below that price. -______-_-- ----- -__ PRICE OF SEEDS.-Ocr. ► l6. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.)... . ..... Yak libe. 6 n e I°l ' 1 ., 14 ,.. - Old Ditto Ditt0........-...---. _ , 36s. -114. fi ne 635. 714. Old Foreign Ditto --... SO6. Nis. fine 600. 635. Old Ditto Ditto-----....... • -,. - .. .._ • . Ms. 444. fine 4Ss. 5 0, - New White Clover.----•-. Ate 60s, fine tiCa. figs. Old 'Ditto New Trefoil . - ...... • 2ls. 2Ss. fine 3us. 3M. d Ditto-.............----.......-.................. A6.s• 14i. fine lfis • '2l.)'• Ol Rib Grass , 000.1.0......,...........1.0...... 2611. 3all. fine 3 f. w • 3Els. English Carraws/ Seed , -.........--... 3os. 31s. 344. fine --s. Foreign Ditto -- _ - 26 s. 2Pa. 3tn. tint-- 6 _ _ Coriander ....«....................,............•••••••••*•..••••••••••••••• 15s. 17s. 19s• new 3 0 ' , • 391- St. Foin -------(per Quarter).-----..- . - s. s. 265. 4,56. s. nep tine -- 0 . Rye Grass --- Pacey Ditto .... ••••••• •• NV*, M.M.,.........00.................... 280. 445. new lOs• 4 14 Linseed, for feeding -----------...... ..... --s. As. 31. fine n. Ditto, for crushing...-. __:.___ •-.S. 30s. 335. fi ne Va - Canary Seed, New .- '7ls. --s. tine 244 - .'.-s. - Old .....1. .--4. *4. fine -6 White Mustard Seed ......-.(per Bushel)----... -s. 13s. 144. line ...--8. Brown Ditto . .....•,..•••••••••,*..... ••••4 . 13s. 15a. Pine ---4. TLlnlip Seeds, Rounds . •••••••••••...............«•••••••••••••••••••• ....AL tite• OS. line -- -4 . Green and Red Ditto Tares Old---88. od ---- . 4w. fer7liTic-----14.. i5.::-N-e5:,.184..01". tinaelles...'rkl- 2. Rape 'Seed, English, tine (per Last) 21/. to Vt.... Foreign 221. to 241. Rape. Oil, brown .......11111(1.E0?.F...---. 011liefined VS 0 Linseed Oil Linseeel Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Itape Cake, per ton WH1 866. 01. to MSc 4.1. I'ECHAPEL HAY MARKET.--i ,ay l lover Sk. 0,1. to 130 s. at. I PRICES OF BOPS (pci cwt.)—Ocr. P. s. figs. Pocket t —3/. Ns. 4/. 4s. to N. Os. Kent .. . 3/. 10s. 41. Os. to 41. 6s. Ken Sussex 3/. NsSussex 3/.. 3s. 31. 10s. to 3 /. 15 r. EssexEssex3/. 101. 4/. Os.. to 41. Wa. Essex—. 31. 101; 31. 18s• to 41. 4s. Farnhamdine (Pockets) 7/. Os. to St (ie.—Seconds, St 12s. to 11. Os. Old Duty hid at 28_5_____:.0001 PRICE OF POTATOES.—Ocr. 16. o : nobles and Shand 3/. Ss. to 3 1 . 10 s. pet Ton. M ars h Champlons„-----,, 41. Os. to 41. 10s. ditto. ------ PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. d. • Per lb. d. d Butts..---- 5 0 to 561 b.......... 19 toll Tanned Horse Hides.-- in to 1! Ditto--- 60 to Re1b........ 21 to 23 Spanish Ditto...---.... 10 to I. Dressing Hide 5..—.....- 12i to 15 ; Per dozen. Fine Coach Ilides 15 to 17 ' Calf Skins,— :IR to 4010. In 1. .. 24 Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b.— 13 to 15 Ditto ....--.... 50 to •101h,„21 h t: 0 1 " Ditt0........--. 45 to 501 b.— 15 to 17 Ditto ---.—. '7O to 6011 x xl ' e l —... 17 to IV , Small Seal 4, Gretatand...l9 V."' - _._. RAW HIDES. d. -u 4. Per Stone. a. d. p. d. Per Stone. !: oto is Rest Heifers and Steers 210 to 2 2 Ordinary ........--...... ; 0 each. Middlings ..-----.....-- 2 4to 2 8 Market ea 1 1..., • m Rd: to 21. 3d. 1, Burdon.,---. 27 It Felling Main 6 Healon.----. 33 61 Flebburn 0 IleworthPrimmse 29 0 0 Kenton West 29 6 Killingworth ...—.31 3 Liddell's Main—,—.27 0 Ord's Itedbugh 25 6 Prism ......--:3l► 0 Percy 77 0 PontopWindsor— 77 ri 0 'Pantield Moor. 31 0 'forrnley 22 6 Wallington --- 32 3 ' Ships at Market, SHEEP SKINS nobs-. Os. Od. to 04.,0d. AL. MARKET.—Oct 1 [6. ig. d. W. E. Newinsrch . 1 0 Truie,.....,,,, 2..00 Hartley oa .........^."' 0 0 luverke it 'Stone Cl , h. W Col, ill. „. 6 Great Coal ~, '.?., Eden Main..........- l. ; ' Fawcett Main..., 11 Russell's Lyon . 4 0 . Main........-.----4' iii 0 , Neshain Mitt,-* ~.. A Walls End lietton.E . W. E. Latubton , la y i Walls Enft 1-400; i; 1 W..E. teleart's.r Russell's Helton li, 0 Walls End„......0 Wy I a. >r93 Walls End WM.32 0 WallsEnslllewicke3s 0 • W. E VA 6 W. K Burraton— 31 6 W. E. Grew's— 27 6 W. E. Hilda 19 6 W. K Hotspur 30 0 W. E. Newmareh 32 0 W. E. Northumb. 31 6 W. E. Peareth— 30 0 W. K Riddell's 33 3 W. E. Russell's 31 0 ' Tunlield Trader— 31 0 Lambton small-- 17 6 Walker small ...» 15 0 Culm Milford 10 0 .Unsold. 1.53N --Ships sold, 61. LEICESTER CATTLE FAIR. m iddlin g C)sr Fair on Tuesday presented on the whole only a supply ; and in point of quality, a worse show was never act »' . strik ingly manifesting the effects of the late drought upon thi,, e , .ription of an i ma ls. What prime beef there was in the insfite,: which Was ver y limited indeed, ,old very readily at about alvevPi pence per pound. The half-ineated beasts experienced 1!, sale ; on ly th e b es t o f them met with purchasers, and that at f r o m o i theenumbersknown for o f graziers say, that this was the dullest fair dal' . : i . for some years. There was an unusually large gni:l:. sheep, which went off very slowly at reduced price' ° 24e• spectable grazier told us that he had sold a lot of sheep far ad for Pet' head, which be could readily have &tabus] 35a. Pe r he last year.--Leicester Chronicle ------'—. TEWKESBURY FAIR, On Tuesday was but indifferently supplied with wa` bu t i t . bere greater demand for cattle and sheep than WWI a .........--_- _ FALKIRK TRYST. 'At the great Falkirk Tryst -on Monde he sold with 0 , 7 i/ ordinary rapidity, but at very low prices .Yt Cheviot t hree Year ° er weddera brought frmn 15s. to 17e . Good bld:Jared thr o ve }e l.. old weddere brought from 17s. to I l i. Ild. The store 54t.05 okowol to generally in excellent condition. The opt ,l l :T ie " fge'lviotbi brt'ed' :50,000, of which folly one-third we °I e i ro ugbt Cheered. by the brisk sale of sheep, tholders of e at. ; There forward their stock in high spirit s (0 1 1.'1°1117:V:: Ilifit. odf there would be from 35,000 to 40,000 11 ad. brought forward, consisting of 40 three -} rites we re Z i 'l e C al: si Y is and brought Si. The other lots varied in Pric es t° .z.ti. Cu" were likewise scam; and they ald from /11. 10e. to '"'' 1 11 0. Argyleshire heifers were scarce, °the tvro-yeat li Pg It°9l °lv -- usually plentiful. The best lot (from Mull) second best sold at 61. 6§. The third best lot (from P"tnbrellen, shire) brought 5/. 7s. Upon the whole, thotrgh what the 0_ brought 7/. Is. 11-0110, call a .. passing market, " ' the graziers of otote pound to one pound ten shillings a head, besides the Outi n g ! w oo heifers, on the contrary, from the cause 'mit mentioned, tug pro' have hot front Orr an advance from 10e. to 15s a-head, sinjr. last Tryit. Th e 5 0 ,4 pr ettirs of the heavy Angus and Ahenleenali" rattle l'al'ilitti" Ir o e l at yon this occasion. On Tuesday afternoon, prices ra P t o t° 141', living a deduction of about 20 per cent. i 'll nee t t l o 'tryst. There were very few fat cattle brought forelln: ; hi , g ot thatthat were in prime condition sold at about the prices refl V 181' 4601 1 1 the Glasgow market. The horses were tolerably ii"liel'othee but, with a very few exceptions, of indifferent quality. 14 to ol good three-year-olds were held at from 32/. to 28/. ° g los ing of a smaller size were offered at from 251. to 18/. Heroes sot mark of mouth of a large size were held at from 241. to 121 ',. ; oh , of the ordinary farm size, at from 161. to 9/ ---Vdittbur97 server. • - BIRTHS. On the 16th ins t., in the Paragon, Brixton-hilt, the Is "' J u n e s Taylor, Esq., of Furnival'a Inn, of a d au ghter of . On the Ibth inst , in BloonishurY eq tiare M id . G. 110 0 1° . ' a son. .MARRIED.• On the ihtli inst., Mr. amPet R we, of oNorwich, to .1°1i: Hs riett daughter of the sate ItiJv.^Thaaa.. Colborne f Oultotl N(4 DIED. On the 13th inst. , at Canterbury, Lietit...Georral 140thaltit R o y a l Artillery, aged 65. ' hip ffi gini)°l6 On the 15th May last, on board his Maleety ' a in Madras Roads, Lieut. Lewis Cramer, R. . FrO tt* On the Itith init., in Durheas-street, Portland-Pae', As bite wife of James Gordon Duff, Esq., aged 33, daughter or ''' James Williamson, Esq., of Tavistork-square. or rici Printed aid Pabiiitheil lif. YOUNG, hi tht V 41- sc. IS, *Wm.